motel de moka

1. Black Sabbath - supernaut
2. Zior - I really do
3. T. Rex - Cadillac
4. ZZ Top - Tush
5. Budgie - Breadfan
6. Captain Beyond - dancing madly backwards
7. The Guess Who - no sugar tonight
8. Blue Cheer - summertime blues

Last days in France and bringing them with a whirlwind of hangovers. Tsk, tsk. And in surveying my surroundings here at home, I wonder if I am simply coming home at night to trash my apartment, Motley Crue hotel room-style circa 1986, only without the underage groupies. Sigh. Au revoir, France, á jamais.

Photo: Tedfoo.

Mustafa Kandıralı and Selim Sesler are the two of the most important clarinetist in Turkey. Their ancestors are Gypsy, and second and fifth songs belong to Romani people.

Burhan Öçal is a wellknown percussionist in all around the world.

Baba Zula is a psychedelic group uses turkish instruments in their works. The language is used in this song actually doesn’t exist.

01. Mustafa Kandıralı - Bahriye Çiftetellisi

02. Selim Sesler & Grup Trakya - Kiremit Bacaları - Naşti Uşava

03. Mustafa Kandıralı - Misket

04. Burhan Öçal & Jamaladeen Tacuma - Nihavend Longa

05. Burhan Öçal & Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - Roman Oyun Havası

06. Baba Zula - Sıpa

photo by Anastassia Zlatopolskaia

1. Neon - crazy girls
   (Magic Summer / 2004)
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow - rollerdisco
   (Dandelion Gum / 2007)
3. Grabba Grabba Tape - Dr. Groxtronik & lil kül lol
   (Kurt Kobaya y G.R.O.X. Man Odia Nirvana / 2006)
4. Maps - you don’t know her name
   (we can create / 2007)
5. Honey is cool - twinkle
   (Crazy love / 1997)
6. Zach Condon - Venice
   (Comp from Believer magazine / 2007)
7. Vector Lovers - melodies and memory
   (Capsule for one / 2005)
8. Science for Girls - You’ll never know (net)
   (TBA / 2007)
9. Manitoba - children play well together
   (Start breaking my heart / 2001)
10. Mice parade - double dolphins on a dime
    (self titled / 2007)

A playlist that lies halfway between pop psychedelia & the warm sound of downtempo. Summer’s here. Get all the friends you can eat, dance, let go of an old flame, dream of foreign landscapes, drink 8 glasses of water per day, stop smoking, stay off the internet, don’t take drugs and most importantly, wear sunscreen.

Photo(s): Scuddr, Yohanna, tableshaveturned, pablo korona.

No, it’s more a matter of us structuring any particular song to a shape we have in mind. We’re trying to execute it. We’re trying to make sure it moves properly from one thing to another. In a lot of our songs something is stated and then it’s implied, or it’s stated and then it disappears and it comes back later. The pacing of a song is more important than what we’re actually playing. The actual notes we play are not so important. I have to say we don’t give any consideration to the audience when writing songs. Every now and again, we’ll realize we’ve played three boring songs in a row and get self-conscious about it and make sure we don’t play another boring song We’ll play something more exciting but it’s always something that we feel like playing. So it’s like we’re boring ourselves rather than being terribly concerned about anyone else. - Shellac

“A sketch of Missing 90’s”

01. Shipping News - Louven (web)
Flies The Fields (Quarter Stick, 2005)
02. Shellac - Watch Song (web)
1000 Hurts (Touch & Go Records, 2000)
03. The Mercury Program - A Delicate Answer
All The Suits Began To Fall Off (Tiger Style, 2001)
04. Don Caballero - Subdued Confections (web)
For Respect (Touch & Go Records, 1993)
05. Spacemen 3 - When Tomorrow Hits
Recurring (Space Age Recordings, 1991)
06. The Constantines - To The Lullabies
Constantines (Sub Pop, 2001)
07. Bellini - Furious
Snowing Sun (Monitor Records, 2002)
08. Deerhoof - Spiral Golden Town
Green Cosmo EP (Mcd, 2005)

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Note: The missing sound from the 90’s. I think Math rock is highly overlooked innovation that happened in the late 90’s and early 00’s. Not only it brought new sound and unprecedented craftmanship. It also freed rock from contrained of traditional song form. Of course then you will miss the “singing”. Beyond that a lot of time Mathrock albums also are either extra harsh or at the opposite, too atmospheric. The slow and large sound of postrock. (eg Goodspeed). That turns off a lot of people who used to more hummable songs. So here is something in between from my fav. math rock groups. Maybe it works for hot summer day, a bit abstract, dissonance and absolutely 90’s. Just don’t get heatstroke or something. Enjoy.
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see also: mathrock (wiki), Near Mathrock, Warped Reality
image: [banlon1964], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

01 Alice
02 Clap Hands
03 Step Right up
04 Temptation
05 Red shoes by the drugstore
06 Jockey Full of Bourbon
07 Green Grass
08 Hoist that rag
09 All the world is green
10 Hold on

Te tatúas el nombre de tu novia con un clavo: tienes una canción de Tom Waits. En la madrugada dipsómana, usas los parquímetros como bastones: tienes una canción de Tom Waits. Le disparas constante, inútilmente a la luna llena: tienes una canción de Tom Waits. O te lamentas, en un tugurio de octava, de que las cervezas estén calientes y las mujeres frías: tienes una canción de Tom Waits. Pero, ¿la tienes? Porque sin una voz resquebrajada y lúgubre, trabajada por la perseverante corrosión del bourbon y el tabaco, no tienes nada. E incluso con la voz, te faltaría haber vivido durante años en un cuarto del Hotel Tropicana, en la esquina de Hollywood y Vine, en Los Ángeles. Te faltaría haber debutado en el cine junto a Sylvester Stallone, ni más ni menos. Te faltaría ser un autodidacta del piano, la guitarra e instrumentos mucho menos ortodoxos como el “conundrum” (formado por diversas herramientas de labranza) y el tambor africano parlante. Te faltaría ser asiduo de los peores congales, fondas, cantinas, cafés, cubiles y garitos de tu ciudad, y extraerles su esencia y sabor hasta que formen parte de tus letras, de tus rasposas, divertidas, espesas, sublimes letras. Pero tú no eres Tom Waits ni podrías serlo: los grandes histriones son inimitables y escurridizos, no dejan una escuela sino un rastro de flamazos geniales e irrepetibles. Ahora lo que tienes no es una, sino 10 canciones de Tom Waits. Un regalo que venía envenenado, pero eso ya lo sabías de antemano.
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“I was the one who looked at all of you while you weren’t looking at me, and who laughed out loud sneakingly!”

1. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Baptism > Bar > Blues
Tuning to the Rooster (Important / 2005)
2. Curse of the Birthmark - Alibis
3. Chris Corsano - How Should You Pick Up The Ball And Throw It?
The Young Cricketer (2006)
4. Flower-Corsano Duo - The Fifth Truth
The Undisputed Dimension (No-Fi)
5. Michael Flower - 3pm 28 08 05
Returning to Knowing Nothing (Qbico / 2007)
6. Sonic Youth - The World Looks Red
Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols (Geffen / 1983)
7. KK Null & Daniel Menche - Untitled 1
Raijin (Asphodel / 2006)
8. L@N (Rupert Buwa Huber & Otto Muller)- B2
9. Youngsbower - Welding The Sea
Relayer (VHF / 2002)

Here comes another slightly noisy list, which I actually made before the “A”. This list not very deliberately reveals my huge favors of Vibracathedral Orchestra and all related people and things (i.e. Michael Flower and his shahi baaja *** — interestingly Mr. Bubba mentioned him and the album in the comment to “A”). I’m also quite contained with my discovery of Youngsbower(Richard Youngs + Matthew Bower)– though very delayed. The whole album is as expected exhilarating and cool as ever. Specially the very distinctive crystal-like bleeps and constant beats in the background. Hope you enjoy.

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“Sound Balance”

01. Aphex Twin - jynweythek ylow
DrukQs (2001)
02. Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in F-sharp minor K.25
17 sonate per pianoforte/Vladimir Horowitz (1995)
03. Tchaikovsky - The Seasons, Selection June, Barcarolle
(Sviatoslav Richter, 1983)
04. Raison D’Etre - Metamorphyses Phase V
Metamorphyses (2006)
05. Joanna Newsom - The Book of Right-on
The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
06. Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in G major K.547
17 sonate per pianoforte/Vladimir Horowitz (1995)

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Note: Somebody ask for dark ambient. Here is one track by Raison D’Etre from their Metamorphyses. It has a lot of interesting changes of sound that makes it interesting despite long play time for each track. It also doesn’t try to be strange, everything seems fit. The rest are excellent technicians. Musicians job is to create and control sound output of his instrument to a degree that nobody else can match. There lies an instrumentalist skill, the thing that makes a musician ego. This problem is specially tricky with acoustic instrument where sonic control only exist at the moment source of vibration occurs. There is nothing beyond, no electronic. So control occurs in much shorter window. About the list. Overall this list is quite and mostly about solo performance, electronic next to acoustic. The star in the list: Vladimir Horowitz [1], probably the most famous 20th century technicians with unmatched tone control and sense of overall balance. Etc. enjoy.

image: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [Bibimorva]